"The mobile SDKs make it easier for software developers to call an AWS web service API directly from a mobile application. Previously, developers either wrote their own libraries to handle the HTTP connection, request retries, and error handling, or built additional infrastructure to proxy the API requests through a server fleet," Amazon Web Services said in its launch announcement.

Possible uses include applications that upload photos, videos and other media to the AWS storage cloud for distribution, games that share scores and move data between mobile devices via the cloud database, and messaging clients that use the AWS cloud to route messages between devices.

In addition, Microsoft's recently-departed chief software architect Ray Ozzie wrote in his October departure note that the future of computing lay in a 'Post PC' world, in which numerous mobile devices plugged into an ever-present cloud.

The SDK code libraries for both iOS and Android are available on online source code repository github.